Joseph Kessels
is professor of Human Resource Development at the
University of Twente in The Netherlands. He formerly held a similar chair at the University of Leiden. His research projects and publications focus on the design of learning environments for corporate education, innovation and knowledge productivity, with a special interest in the role of social capital.
Suzanne Verdonschot
is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of
Twente in the Netherlands and consultant at Kessels&Smit The learning company. In 2009 she successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis "Learning to Innovate", a series of studies to explore and enable learning in innovation practices. On the basis of her research findings she developed guidelines for creating breakthrough processes in innovation projects.
Tjip de Jong
is researcher and consultant at Kessels & Smit The learning
company, in the Netherlands. In 2010 he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Linking Social Capital to Knowledge Productivity, an explorative study on the relationship between social capital and learning in knowledge-productive networks. This domain still holds his main research interest.
